Author : Vincent Gaddis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948803076
"American Indian Myths and Mysteries is an authoritative and scrupulously researched account of mythology of the native American ... Although much of this ancient heritage has been lost, a great deal has been saved and there are men and women alive today who remember the lore of their ancestors."--Cover
Author : Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080415175X
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups present a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. “This fine, valuable new gathering of ... tales is truly alive, mysterious, and wonderful—overflowing, that is, with wonder, mystery and life" (National Book Award Winner Peter Matthiessen). In addition to mining the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century, the editors have also included a broad selection of contemporary Native American voices.
Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486122794
This fascinating and informative compendium, assembled by a celebrated anthropologist, offers a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales.
Author : Ella E. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520350960
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1787556352
The Algonquins, Iroquois, the legend of Hiawatha and The Last of the Mohicans – the tribes of North America and their folk tales are deeply fascinating because they are unique amongst the mythologies of the world. The tribes were isolated from outside influence for thousands of years and developed a fruitful, empathetic relationship with their landscape, evolving a tradition that respected and feared nature in equal measure. The retold tales collected for this new book celebrate the diverse tribal vision of a rich and powerful land that still resonates today. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Author : Megan Kopp
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Indian mythology
ISBN : 9780778745266
Ancient peoples created myths to help explain the world around them-creation, death and the underworld, seasons and agriculture, natural disasters, class structure in society, and commerce. Myths Understood features important myths from different ancient cultures and describes the roles and relationships of the gods that were the foundation of their religions. Understanding Native American Myths explores the roles and relationships of the spirits in Native American myths and legends. Several myths, including "The Earth on Turtle's Back" and "The Legend of Spider Woman," are retold, describing how these stories helped people in early North America interpret their world. Book jacket.
Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395984055
Presents a collection of Native American mythology from various tribes including their different perspectives on how the earth was started and how it will end.
Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Indian mythology
ISBN :
Author : Vincent H. Gaddis
Publisher : New York : Indian Head Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780880297554
American Indian Myths and Mysteries is an authoritative and scrupulously researched account of mythology of the native American. Although much of this ancient heritage has been lost, a great deal has been saved and there are men and women alive today who remember th lore of their ancestors.
Author : Shepard Krech
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393321005
Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
